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Topic: Zmick's Blog & Dinky PBs Thread (Read 5042 times)

I like celebrating when I get live PBs, but I figure why not multiply the fun by sharing them here? This thread is just going to be me sharing my successes in various point-grabbing endeavors.

Tonight, I achieved a new PB in Bubbles - 127,440!!!!! It's the first time I've been able to squeeze just a few more points before dying to get the extra live at 125k. As you can see, I didn't last much longer than that, but I'm just getting started working on my Bubbles skills.

"Do not criticize, question, suggest or opine anything about an upcoming CAG event, no matter how constructive or positive your intent may be. You will find nothing but pain and frustration, trust me. Just go, or don't go, and either way!" -ChrisP, 3/29/15

More hype, because my new PB in Bubbles is 138,160. This is the sixth PB in one week. Either I'm improving at an historical rate, or this game isn't quite as hard as I used to think it was. Still hard, though I'm not so much getting farther into the game as I am feeling a lot more comfortable with point pressing on the easier beginning levels. Especially by grabbing broomsticks and lying wait by the drain for the ants to come out to snag points.

I love Bubbbles

EDIT: New PB again- 138, 790. Maybe I should hold off for a bit before I post another. This is all coming way too quickly. How about I come back when I've hit 200k?

Just scored in Bubbles: 158,250. I felt like I was going to hit 200k, but had 2 dumb deaths in a row just after hitting 100k. Was able to hold on for a new PB. I didn't record the game, so you're just going to have to trust me

I know I've been reporting too many of my Bubbles PBs (I really should wait till I hit milestones rather than make this an unbearable thread every time I improve my best by 1 point ), buuuuuuuuuuut, I did hit a pretty big milestone today.

I got two games over 200k in Bubbles. The first one was unrecorded, but the second one, my new pb of 221,080 was done on wolfmame .106 with input recording on, meaning that it is submissible to TG and would be good for 4th place on the MAME scoreboard

Now- will I submit this one, or will I wait a short bit to see if I can quickly take over the #3 spot (currently 362,280)? Decisions, decisions! I want to at least take a few days to see if I'm still wildly shooting upward in score or if 200k is going to be a plateau.

Playing on wolfmame .106 rather than the version I want to use is annoying, so I think I'll mostly play on MAMEUI64, especially when streaming, but if I'm getting closer to a milestone or a score I want to submit, I'll play some games on wolfmame106 until I hit my mark.

RE: Robotron, I'm still gunning for that million. I've been getting plenty of 700k+ games lately, which tells me that I might be close. Unfortunately, I've had too many games where I blow life after life and thousands of points on stupid stuff like killing the last enemy before grabbing points on the brain levels or getting myself trapped out of a successful herd pattern by Hulks in the grunt swarm levels.

It's been quite some time since I've PBd in any arcade games, but I did get a HUGE PB in Contra - 11:37! My first sub-12 run. I'm set to get sub-11 soon with a number of places I know I'm capable of saving time. I just need to get a streak of attempts in to put a good run together.

I had 800k in Robotron with several extra lives during my morning stream today. I'm upset that I blew away such a good start, but it's the best score I've gotten in quite some time. I have a good feeling that 1 million can happen very soon if I dedicate a stretch of time towards making it happen.

Here is the highlight on Twitch. I paused several times during the game, so you can decide for yourself if you think it "counts" . I was just playing for fun without any intention of submitting it anywhere.

On a whim, I decided to fire Galaga up today for the first time in several weeks. On my second game, I got a new PB of 178,920! This beat my old PB by almost 30k points. I think I'll be spending some quality time with this game in the coming weeks to see what I can do From watching vids on youtube, the game doesn't seem to get much harder as it goes on, but, well... I'll see for myself if that's really the case

I just got 926k Robotron off-stream. I'm not sure if this is a PB since I don't actually remember what my PB is, but it's definitely the best game I've had since joining DKF.

I have it recorded, although I can't say I know what format it is in. I'm using the Linux version of MAME available from the Software Center in Linux Mint and recorded via the GNOME Arcade frontend. I have to take a look at it later and figure that out.

A disappointing ending as I had 2 lives left after 925k and lost them both in a blink of an eye. Getting closer, though 1 million has to happen soon enough. From there, the game doesn't get more difficult, so multiple millions could be in my future.